
Presently, 30 out of 48 (63%) municipalities in Mercer County have zoning.
To protect and enhance the value of land.īelow is a list of municipalities in Mercer County that have locally adopted Zoning ordinances. To establish reasonable standards to which buildings and development shall conform. To facilitate the adequate provision of housing, commercial and industrial development, transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks and other public requirements. To avoid undue congestion of population. To secure safety from fire, disaster, panic, pollution hazards and other dangers. To lessen congestion and promote public safety and convenience on roads and highways. To discourage the intermixture of incompatible land uses and, where such intermixture may be beneficial or where zoning district boundaries present transitions between incompatible uses, to control impacts of incompatible uses. To promote coordinated, orderly, harmonious and practical community development. Gas Development LLC et al., 1229 CD 2015, 1323 CD 2015, 2609 CD 2015, arose out of Middlesex Township’s Ordinance 127, enacted in 2014, which sought to add a oil and gas well site development use within a Residential-Agricultural (R-AG.
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